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Britain passes Stamp Act that requires colonsts to pay taxes on printed documents
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A group of Boston workers who organized to protest the new laws
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An act that said parliment had the right "to bind the colonists and people of America in all cases whatsoever."
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Taxed goods that were imported from Britain to the colonies. Also put tax on tea, the most popular drink in the coloies.
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A mob of protestors gathered infront of the Boston Customs House and taunteded the British soldierss. The soldiers fired upon the crowd and five colonist were killed.
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An act that was supposed to save the East India Company from going bankrupt by letting them sell tea directly to the colonist free of taxes. This plan backfired.
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A group of Boston rebels dressed up as indians and dumped 18,000 pounds of East India Company tea into the Boston Harbor in the middle of the night.
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King George III was frustrated with the colonies so he passed a series of acts that became known as the Intolerable acts. They did things like shut down the Boston Harbor, authorized british troops to stay in coloist homes, and put Boston under military rule.
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56 delegates met to draw up a declaration of colonial rights.
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British soldiers were marching to Concord to seize illegal weapons held there by the rebels. At Lexington, five miles from Concord, a line of 70 minutemen stood to oppose the redcoats. There, someone fired the first shot that began the Revolutionary War.
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The colonial leaders met in Philidelphia to debate whether or not to go to war for their independence.
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A 50-page pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, in which he attacked King George and declared that America should be independent.
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A document written by Thomas Jefferson that delcared that the American colonies were free. He addopted John Locke's ideas of Natural Rights and also stated that "all men are created equal."
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An early victory for the British. Drove washingtons army out of New York, into Pennsylvania.
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Washington led a supprise attack and defeated a group of Hessians in Trenton, New Jersey.
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American troops surround Burgoyne at Saratoga where he surrendered.
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Americans surrounded the British on the Yorktown peninsula and bombarded them with attacks all day and night for almost a month. Britain finally surrendered the war on October 19th.
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Confirmed the Idependence of the U.S. and set the boundaries of the new nation.
